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Before passing up a career in law for the writing life, Richard
Matthews Hallett lived an exciting life of adventure, that included
a stint as a police officer, and as a seaman aboard a schooner
bound for Australia. He then trekked across that country and lived
by his wits in England for a time before returning to the States.
Later, he was a deck officer on warships convoying soldiers and
horses across the Atlantic in WW I, and facing U-boat attacks. Over
is life, Hallett wrote several novels and more than 200 short
stories that were published in the most widely read magazines of
the day, including the Saturday Evening Post, Harper's, Atlantic,
Collier's, Everybody's, and American Legion Monthly. The stories
gathered here, published in the first half of the twentieth
century, include vivid tales of the sea, both in the days of sail
and in the midst of war, often built around ship-board tensions and
tumult; and stories of Maine and New England and their small town
values and rivalries.
In an age when local daily papers with formerly robust reporting
are cutting sections and even closing their doors, the contributors
to The Life of Kings celebrate the heyday of one such paper, the
Baltimore Sun, when it set the agenda for Baltimore, was a force in
Washington, and extended its reach around the globe. Contributors
like David Simon, creator of HBO's The Wire, and renowned political
cartoonist Kevin Kallaugher (better known as KAL), tell what it was
like to work in what may have been the last golden age of American
newspapers -- when journalism still seemed like "the life of kings"
that H.L. Mencken so cheerfully remembered. The writers in this
volume recall the standards that made the Sun and other fine
independent newspapers a bulwark of civic life for so long. Their
contributions affirm that the core principles they followed are no
less imperative for the new forms of journalism: a strong sense of
the public interest in whose name they were acting, a reverence for
accuracy, and an obligation to keep faith with the reader.
This colorful history of the shipbuilding company of William
Donnell Crooker and Charles Crooker, by the great-great grandson of
William Donnell, provides a thorough overview of a family, its
contributions to shipbuilding, and the historic sweep of
shipbuilding in the area, as well as a fascinating glimpse into
everyday life in Maine during this time.
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